Association of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Type 2 Diabetic Individuals by Noor ul ain, Sheikh Abdul Saeed, Muhammad sajid Abbas jaffri, Shazia Shakoor, Shah jabeen, Sana Kashif

“…Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Results: Out of 144 participants, 55.6% of the type 2 diabetic were male and 44.4% were female. …”
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Effect of Sex and Lateral Ankle Sprain History on Dorsiflexion Range Of Motion Asymmetry During the Weight Bearing Lunge Test by kathrine P Cady, Mark De Ste Croix, Martine Deighan

“…A 3-way mixed ANOVA was carried out to determine the interaction between sex, LAS history and leg dominance on DFROM and a 2-way ANOVA for the effect of sex and LAS history on asymmetry. …”
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An In silico Approach towards Finding the Cancer-Causing Mutations in Human MET Gene by Fayeza Sadia Laskar, Md. Nazmul Islam Bappy, Md. Sowrov Hossain, Zenifer Alam, Dilruba Afrin, Sudeb Saha, Kazi Md. Ali Zinnah

“…A total of 45359 SNPs of MET gene were accumulated from the database of dbSNP, and among them, 1306 SNPs were identified as non-synonymous or missense variants. Out of all 1306 nsSNPs, 18 were found to be the most deleterious. …”
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Magazine “Business Spotlight” as the authentic resource for developing English reading skills for higher education students by A. Palamarchuk, D. Pylypyshyna

“…A variety of researchers point out that the selection of authentic materials is challenging and time-consuming, as it requires choosing a suitable, readable, and exploitable text. …”
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Provision and delivery of survivorship care for adult patients with haematological malignancies: A scoping review protocol. by Zoe-Anne V Baldwin, Steph Busby, David Allsup, Judith Cohen, Olufikayo Bamidele

“…<h4>Methodology</h4>A scoping review will be carried out utilising Arksey and O'Malley's guidelines as its methodological framework. …”
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Institutional Traps of Digitalization of Russian Higher Education by M. A. Golovchin

“…Within the framework of the purpose of the study, the manifestations of the trap of electronization and digitalization of Russian higher education were analyzed on the basis of sociological data, and the theoretical modeling of the process of adaptation of educational agents to the institution of digitalization was carried out.In the course of the study, the approaches were summarized that have been developed in discussions on educational digitalization. …”
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Development and validation of the Iranian Social Health Questionnaire (IrSHQ) by Hassan Rafiey, Mostafa Amini Rarani, Fardin Alipour, Esmaeil Khedmati Morasae

“…All analyses were carried out using SPSS software (version 22). Results: We developed the Iranian Social Health Questionnaire (IrSHQ) consisting of a 29-item questionnaire organized in seven subscales – ‘Social interaction’, ‘social responsibility’, ‘conscientiousness’, ‘attitude to society’, ‘empathy’, ‘family relationship’, and ‘social participation’−. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Eight Medicinal Plants from the Traditional Pharmacopoeia of Niger by Mahamane Idi Issa Abdoulahi, Melogmo Dongmo Yanick Kevin, Tchokouaha Yamthe Lauve Rachel, Hama Hamadou Habibou, Bakasso Sahabi, Alio Sanda Abdelkader, Fabrice Fekam Boyom, Ilagouma Amadou Tidjani

“…Phytochemical screening was performed using colorimetry, while the quantification of total polyphenols, total flavonoids, and total tannins was determined by spectrophotometry. Out of the eight plants obtained, five named Cassia italica, Limeum pterocarpum, Phyllanthus pentandrus, Strychnos innocua, and Ximenia americanum exhibited antibacterial activity with MICs ranging from 500 μg/mL to 2000 μg/mL. …”
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Towards a new spatial representation of bone remodeling by Jason M. Graham, Bruce P. Ayati, Prem S. Ramakrishnan, James A. Martin

“…Also the surface of bone moves in and out, i.e. in the normal direction, due to remodeling. …”
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A Constitutive Model for Saturated Gravelly Sand Based on Higher-Order Dilatancy Equation by Dongjie Zhang, Fei Luo, Zhanyuan Zhu, Bin Luo, Jing Li, Zihan Xu, Jiaming Liu

“…A standard stress path triaxial test system was applied to carry out conventional triaxial shearing tests for gravelly sands under confining pressures ranging from 50 kPa to 400 kPa at the initial relative densities of 0.15, 0.35, 0.55, and 0.75, respectively. …”
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VOCAL HANDICAP AND ASSOCIATION WITH PHYSICAL INACTIVITY AND JOB DISSATISFACTION AMONG TEACHERS by Lilian Souza Melo, Josiane Santos Brant Rocha, Viviana Maia Santos, Leonardo Rodrigues de Souza, Rosângela Ramos Veloso Silva, Desirée Sant´Ana Haikal, Adriane Mesquita Medeiros, Luiza Augusta R. Rossi-Barbosa

“…Voice handicap was present in 20.2% of the teachers and was associated with being female (PR= 1.32; CI95%:1.03-1.70), teaching time (PR= 1.26; CI95%:1.26-1.04), job dissatisfaction (PR= 1.96; CI95%:1.59-2.42) and physical inactivity (PR= 1.24; CI95%:1.00-1.52). The study was carried out at the beginning of the teachers' return to in-school classes and found that a fifth reported a perception of voice handicap, pointing to the need for greater attention to the work environment and the importance of physical activity for voice health. …”
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Yield Response of Hybrid and Open Pollinated Maize (Zea mays L.) Varieties to Different Levels of Fertilizer Nitrogen under Rain-Fed Conditions in the Bono Region of Ghana by Eric Ansu, Kwadwo Gyasi Santo, Abdul Aziz Khalid, Muntala Abdulai, Daniel Ntiamoah Afreh, Kwabena Atakora

“…Hybrid (Pannar 12) and open pollinated (Omankwa) maize varieties were treated with four rates of fertilizer nitrogen obtained from NPK 15-15-15 (0 kgN/ha, 90 kgN/ha, 120 kgN/ha and 150 kgN/ha) and laid out in a factorial combination in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. …”
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Static Voltage Stability Assessment of the Kenyan Power Network by Ombuki Mogaka, Roy Orenge, Julius Ndirangu

“…In the recent past, several studies have been carried out on voltage stability analysis and improvement using various conventional methods. …”
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Student Mobility as a Form of Education Internationalization: A Systems Approach to Management by A. E. Godenko, G. V. Boyko, R. B. Gadgiev, N. Yu. Filimonova

“…This estimation is carried out by means of the analysis of the formed multi-level hierarchical structure. …”
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Numerical study of ice crystal movement and melting in rotating blade channels by ZHANG Lifen, ZHAO Jianhui, YU Bangtuo, LYU Yaguo, LIU Zhenxia

“…Secondly, the numerical simulation of ice crystal movement and melting in the rotating blade channel is carried out to analyze the influence of ice crystal geometry parameters and working condition changes on the ice crystal impact location and ice crystal melting rate. …”
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Evaluation of Improving Water Flooding Technology by Volume Fracturing of Water Injection Wells in Complex Fractured Reservoirs: A Case Study of Chang 6 Reservoirs in Huaqing Oilfi... by Shengping He, Jiaosheng Zhang, Chao Li, Xiqun Tan, Yi Ping, Desheng Li, Jiang Chen

“…Based on the above research, field tests of three well groups are carried out. The test shows that the volume fracturing of water injection wells can form a fracture zone along the direction of the maximum principal stress (with an average bandwidth of 56 meters), and then change the original dominant direction of water drive to realize the effective matching between fractures and injection production well pattern; the row spacing is reduced, and the effect of waterflooding is improved obviously. …”
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RETROSPECTIVE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF KOCURIA SPP. TO ANTIBIOTICS by M.O. Faustova, O.A. Nazarchuk, G.A. Loban, Yu.V. Chumak, M.M. Ananieva, V.V. Bondarenko

“…Cultivation for the final identification of microorganisms was carried out according to the standard method. Determining the sensitivity of selected representatives of genus Kocuria to antibiotics was conducted using the disk diffusion method (Kirby-Bauer) according to EUCAST recommendations (v.12.0; 2022). …”
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Towards a More Efficient Design of High Temperature Concentrating Solar Power Plant With Cascaded Thermal Energy Storage by Brenda Hernandez Corona, Thomas Fasquelle, Muhammad Abdullah, Nicolas Lopez Ferber, Jean-Francois Hoffmann, Mathieu Martins, Ahmad Mayyas, Nicolas Calvet

“…The secondary TES is used as a heat sink during charge, improving efficiency and reducing the size of the air/ceramic-packed bed by extracting the thermocline out of the tank. Excess energy stored in the secondary TES is utilized for preheating during discharge. …”
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Accidental Explantation of a Cochlear Implant in a Child Who Developed Cholesteatoma as a Late Complication of Cochlear Implantation by Wong Kein Low, Wan Ni Pok, Win Nie Ng, Judy Tan

“…Reimplantation was carried out 2 days later with good postoperative hearing results. …”
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Typhoon Maria Precipitation Retrieval and Evolution Based on the Infrared Brightness Temperature of the Feng-Yun 4A/Advanced Geosynchronous Radiation Imager by Gen Wang, Kefu Wang, Wei Han, Dongyong Wang, Xuexing Qiu

“…Second, the shrunken locally linear embedding algorithm (SLLE) was adopted to carry out the retrieval of precipitation based on the brightness temperatures of AGRI infrared channels 8–14. …”
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